Poem of Creation - 7

 

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Moses’s Speech

 

First Part

 

In the meantime there arose a new king

Over Egypt that knew not Joseph. And

He said to his people: “ Behold this thing:

The people of Israel in our land

Numerous and stronger are becoming

Than we; come let wisely oppress and bend

Them  before they become also expert

To move us war and  run away through desert.

 

But it happened that the heavy jobs,

which the Egyptians  submitted the Jewish

instead of  decreasing its values,

made more mordant and more anguish

to the eyes of the same oppressors,

regardless of consequences and of costs,

Pharao made a general  edict:

“Be each male child drowned in the river of Egypt.